QuoteSooo, I have been a very happy iPhone 11 Pro Max user as of late. The extra battery life over my XS Max is fantastic and I have LOVED comfortably making it through the day no matter how hard I hit the GPS chip and Bluetooth modems. My XS Max was also microscratched to **** and back because I did not use a screen protector. I wasn't even planning on upgrading to the 11 Pro Max, but between the massive improvements in efficiency allotted by the A13 mixed with "The worlds strongest glass on an iPhone," how could I say no?
Well... turns out that's a half truth.
The iPhone 11 Pro Max Glass is "the worlds most shatter resistant glass on an iPhone." Honestly I should have seen this coming as the only way to make a rigid, fragile material stronger is to make it softer, but such is life.
Noticed gouges on my 11 Pro Max display, just as Linus noted in his review... Sigh. Full writeup on the Apple forums: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250829831
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As far as I know, they're still using glass, and glass of any kind scratches at a Mohs hardness of 6. Different types like Gorilla Glass, etc. only affect flexibility and shatter resistance. So, this should be somewhat expected - it would scratch as easily as any other phone. However, that's really not that easily as most things including keys, razor blades, and other bits of common metal, are not hard enough to scratch glass, so how did this happen?
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Your best guess is as good as mine. I keep the phone in a soft cloth pocket at all times and have never dropped it, I don't even put anything else in the pocket with it.
My best guess is that the top layer of glass is softer to keep it from shattering while dropped. Regardless Apple needs to fix the issue as me and Linus are far from the only ones who have experienced this @Ryan_Vickers
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@Ryan_VickersIt IS more shatter resistant, thats been tested and proven. But more scratch prone? That's a rough trade.